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Albee, Sarah

Poop Happened!: A History of the World from the Bottom Up

(4) 4-6 Illustrated by Robert Leighton. Eighteen chapters with short sub-sections, call-out boxes, humorous cartoons, and archival photographs cover the human struggle to deal with excrement and its resultant smells, pollution, and diseases. The book's design is unattractive, but the tongue-in-cheek tone and goofy humor ("When in Rome, Poo as the Romans Do") will appeal to the middle-grade set. Timeline. Ind.

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